ESPNBoston.com reports New England Patriots HC Bill Belichick does not plan to name a defensive coordinator in 2010 and instead will be more involved on defense and share the workload with his assistants, according to the team's official website. "Titles are fine, nothing wrong with them," Belichick said on Patriots.com, "but the most important thing is each person's role, that we do everything we can to help the players succeed -- everyone collectively getting the job done." The Patriots and Dean Pees, who served as defensive coordinator the last four seasons, parted ways in January. The Patriots have since hired former Patriot Corwin Brown to work with the defense. Brown will coach defensive backs along with last year's defensive backs coach, Josh Boyer. The rest of the defensive staff has remained intact.

That's interesting. The Patriots have some problems offensively as far as consistency in the playcalling department, and it just seemed like not everyone was on the same page at time. Now that Bellichick is moving to DC, he is putting more pressure on his offensive guys to get their problems fixed.

I think this is good for Miami. Every coach that has tried that has failed. I think it is just BB's ego that is out of control. I love it. It will put more pressure on him as a DC. Meglomaniac comes to mind.

Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:07 pm

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Re: OT: Patriots Won't Hire a DC for 2010

NFLJunkie wrote:

I think this is good for Miami. Every coach that has tried that has failed.